Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

CVE-2001-0686

Buffer overflow in mail included with SunOS 5.8 for x86 allows a local user to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Solaris — versions 5.8, 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)